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“The problem with mankind is we too often find our souls to be a fair price for power.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Curses can be tricky things. Sometimes they demand an impossible price, one you might not be willing to pay.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, To Wake a Kingdom

“I pulled my dress to my hips, bunching it there in a way I was sure must look awkward, but there was no other way to move my legs apart. I considered unzipping the back and slipping it off to seem less ungainly, but I intended to give him not an inch more than he paid for or deserved. I had no illusion of modesty, but I was well aware of my worth as a commodity. If he wanted to see the curve of my back—and certainly if he wanted another look at my tits—there would be a price tag attached.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“Shopping the equity market solely based on stock prices is like shopping at the grocery store solely based on food prices instead of based on the quality of food �� you may end up with a full pantry, and poor health. Price matters. But it’s really about the value that you get for the price.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Perhaps a necklace of tears to weep so that she won't have to? A pin of teeth to bite annoying husbands? No.' He continues to walk through the small space. He lifts a ring. 'To bring on a child?' And then, seeing my face, lifts a pair of earrings, one in the shape of a crescent moon and the other in the shape of a star. 'Ah, yes. Here. This is what you want.'

'What do they do?' I ask.

He laughs. 'They are beautiful- isn't that enough?'

I give him a skeptical look. 'It would be enough, considering how exquisite they are, but I bet it isn't all.'

He enjoys that. 'Clever girl. They are not only beautiful, but they add to beauty. They make someone more lovely than they were, painfully lovely. Her husband will not leave her side for quite some time.'

The look on his face is a challenge. He believes I am too vain to give such a gift to my sister.

How well he knows the selfish human heart. Taryn will be a beautiful bride. How much more do I, her twin, want to put myself in her shadow? How lovely can I bear her to be?

And yet, what better gift for a human girl wedded to the beauty of the Folk?

'What would you take for them?' I ask.

'Oh, any number of little things. A year of your life. The luster of your hair. The sound of your laugh.'

'My laugh is not such a sweet sound as all that.'

'Not sweet, but I bet it's rare,' he says, and I wonder at his knowing that.

'What about my tears?' I ask. 'You could make another necklace.'

He looks at me, as though evaluating how often I weep. 'I will take a single tear,' he says finally. 'And you will take an offer to the High King for me.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The increase in the price of electricity will not affect the poorest. Their electricity has already been cut off.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“People put the price tag on you when you don't know your worth.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“No matter the effort or the price, no matter how hard one tries to escape the time or the place, ultimately nobody can escape love - or fate!”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia

“Some people have value,
others have just price.”
― Augusto Branco

“I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Not every time does virtue reap the rewards, nor does folly always face the consequences.”
― Malar

“If you sell strictly on price, it’ll cost you dearly.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Some people want to be exactly where you are,
but they don't want to pay the price you paid
to be where you are.”
― Augusto Branco

“People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

“Narod izmišlja priče jer bi bez njih pobenavio od gole stvarnosti. Ili bi bez junaka zanijemio od sramote.
Ljudsko biće nije spremno priznati izuzetnom bratu izuzetnost, osim ako ga sebe radi mora izmisliti, moćnog i silnog, da ima na koga osoniti nemoć svoju. I što manje sebe u sebi posjeduje, sve se više sve se više uvlači u drugog. A taj drugi što je dalji, sve je bliži.”
― Derviš Sušić, Uhode

“People want to get where you are,
but aren't willing to pay the price you paid
to have what you have.”
― Augusto Branco

“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.”
― Steven Magee

“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when armed citizens start shooting them.”
― Steven Magee

“Dear Daughter,
There is a price you will pay to be great, it is spelt in five words ─ GRIT.”
― Gift Gugu Mona , Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“Some people are like diamonds they give you beauty and peace when you are around them, when they isolated no one recognizes them and they don't know their price.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Never allow a dream to die because you fear the price that you will pay in achieving it, for far too many dreams lay strewn along the road of life because the courage to achieve them fell prey to fear of fighting for them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is a price to pay for what you wish to possess.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I whispered to the lurking dark behind me, 'What is your price?'
...
Company. Send me company.

I opened my mouth, but them said, 'To- eat?'

A laugh that made my skin crawl. To tell me of life.
...
'It's a bargain,' I breathed. The skin along my left forearm tingled. The thing behind me... I could have sworn I felt it smile.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Everything has a price; the only question is how big.”
― Paul A. Offit, Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

“And he said...

...not all restaurants serve the same food and never for the same price.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I'll pay any price in my power if you help him. Anything."
"Any price," Moiraine mused, half to herself. "We will speak of prices later, Rand, if at all. I can make no promises. Your Wisdom knows what she is about. I will do what I can, but it is beyond my power to stop the Wheel from turning.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Death comes sooner or later to everyone," the Warder said grimly, "unless they serve the Dark One, and only fools are willing to pay that price.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Death comes sooner or later to everyone, unless they serve the Dark One, and only fools are willing to pay that price.", the Warder said grimly.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.”
― Kin Hubbard

“The way we measure the cost of something should change so we aren’t measuring the purchase price alone. We all need to be more aware of the cost of maintaining our lifestyle.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS